Violence: prevention, public health and social justice - aims to outline a framework for determining how violence reduction for everyone can be effectively achieved. The project is being done in partnership with Unison.
The Centre's Research Director, Roger Grimshaw, will be leading the project.
For more information please visit our project page.
At Prime Minister's Questions today, David Cameron was pressed on why he and London Mayor Boris Johnson have been lobbying the EU to weaken plans to reduce air pollution and improve air quality. The question came from Labour MP Geraint Davies.
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There were an estimated 43,900 preventable deaths – so called 'excess deaths' – in England and Wales last winter, the BBC reports today.
The figures, from the Office for National Statistics, are up 12,000...
Sir Michael Marmot has highlighted the impact of social and health inequalities in causing 200,000 premature deaths in the UK, reports The Guardian. He said;
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On 10 September the Centre held a roundtable discussion on the extent to which we can understand austerity policies as acts of violence against...
A study by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the National Children's Bureau claims that thousands of children in Britain die each year as a result of poverty,...
When faced by the challenge of identifying ‘what bit of the criminal justice’ I would give up I was tempted to refuse.
A report from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) presents findings from the world’s biggest-ever survey on violence against women, revealing the extent of abuse suffered by women at home, work, in public and online. As well as demonstrating the wide prevalence of violence...
The Independent reports on a new study published in The Lancet, which found that...
Criminal obsessions: why harm matters more than...
